Just finished reading No more beyond, the life of Hubert Wilkins.
The fella had an amazing and somewhat charmed life, he was involved in the first war of the Balkans, caught up in the retreat of the turkish army as they were routed by the Bulgarians, captured as a spy while trying to get a message [...]
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I would like to recommend ‘Bodyguard Of Lies’ as a great read. It concentrates mostly on the deception and espionage of WWII, with particular focus on Ultra and the various strategies in place to conceal the time/place of the D-Day landings. There are some excellent chapters about the French resistance and about the dealings with [...]
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Just finished reading House to House, by David Bellavia yesterday. It’s a really well written personal account of US Infantry fighting in Fallujah during 2004. Its brilliantly written, his account of the assault on one particular house is probably one of the most gripping things I’ve read. Searing, visceral stuff. One of the better, action-centric [...]
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Excellent read about one units deployment to Iraq during ‘The Surge’ in 2007. Its written with the focus on Col. Ralph Kauzlarich, the CO of Ranger 2-16 Infantry Battalion in Baghdad. A life of daily roadside bombs and mounting casualties over the 15 month deployment is detailed and its pretty gripping. I tore through this [...]
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Amazing book. But only if you have an interest in the genre.
Interestingly, the majority of the book is not devoted to modern warfare, but rather a dissection of the shifting paradigms from warfare in the age of Napoleon (and his novel use of operational manoeuvrability) through the World Wars (Industrial, interstate warfare) up to Vietnam/Malaya/Israel/Iraq/Afghanistan [...]
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Written in 1960 and reprinted in 1980 with notes covering the issues the book first raised, this has to be among the top 3 books I’ve read on Military History and one I certainly recommend.
The book covers the war in the western desert between September 1940 and December 1942 from the British point of view [...]
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I was a little in two minds about whether to review this book, firstly because the subject is very different to the other books that are being reviewed, and secondly because, with the book dating back to the late 1980s, even if you’re interested, you’ll be lucky to find a copy outside of your local [...]
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I’ve just got done with New Dawn The Battles for Fallujah and it was a great read.
It details the second battle for Fallujah and the heavy house to house fighting that took place. It mentions the incident that Sgt Bellavia used to write House to House and also several other large house clearing battles that [...]
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Well, just finished Robert’s Ridge – about a failed part of Operation Anaconda during the initial invasion of Afstan in 2002.
Op Anaconda was a major offensive against the Taliban and al Qaeda by the 10th Mountain Division of the US Army and supporting special forces (SEALs), fought in the high mountains of the AFghan kush [...]
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Stalingrad by Antony Beevor really set the benchmark for war books for me. Incredibly detailed, yet still maintaining the narrative and human interest. I would recommend it to anyone here. I’ve got Berlin to read as well when I get around to it.
Also reading Phoenix Squadron right now, about the Ark Royal’s role in during [...]
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